skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it's hard is because you're lumping together two really difficult problems:

1)How do I find a good technical worker?

2)How do I find an entrpreneurial partner who's a good fit?
Actually, it does, since the difference in performance between entry #1 and entry #2 is so huge (25% error vs 15% error!), and since this is by far the hardest computer vision challenge yet!
These guys call me every month. I hope the FTC does do something about it.
It looks really great ! (Although I wouldn't be able to work 27h a day. ;) )
They have more money and chose a Mac because they are educated and can get a decent salary and mentally independent enough to make a conscious purchasing decision.

I'm going to have to disagree with that. I know plenty of people (with money, yes) that want to "get a Mac". There's no mentally independent purchasing decision, it's just what other people have, and they look cool.

As it happens, it's a good choice. But it could easily not be, and they'd still do it.
Nokia finger race: http://vimeo.com/28240021
> 3. There seems to be no way to securely store BC's.

There is. You can print out the private key and lock it away in a safe.
I'll say that I've learned alot from doing the crappy work too.

Also, I think most managers don't have the autonomy to "do the right thing" because ultimately they're working for somebody else.
Mac are still only ~9% of the market. I suspect that targeting Macs would involve a lot of work for relatively little payback.
Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009)
hahaha, seems like entreporn fanboys don't like when someone puts down meaningless statistics

and yet, someone has to call the ceasar naked

keep voting down, for me it's karma points well spent
Inception.c
Facebook Launches Gifts, But Do and Will People Buy Things on Facebook?
Hmm, I'm running firefox but the nokia page still gives me the error message...
'Marketing team finally gets marketing'

'Atomic weight of cobalt 58.9'
Less risk with an arm capture.

With an arm capture they manoeuvre the craft a safe distance from the ISS then check it can hold position and move slowly toward/away. When they're satisfied then they edge it close enough to capture with the arm.

If it docks itself then you have to trust there won't be some weird last-minute f*ckup causing it to crash into the station.
This is an interesting perspective, and one that I hadn't considered. The obvious implication is that Bitcoin should only be used where one currently uses cash. Crucially, this means 100% offline (because even bank transfers require a bank, which Bitcoin doesn't have).

Perhaps the route to success for Bitcoin involves sophisticated offline tools?
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As far as their team goes[1], they have the most prominent bigwigs in the field of Machine Learning and HCI working for / advising them. Looks like a promising startup.
[1] - http://www.trifacta.com/team
This sounds pretty depressing to me. You're building the software that allows others to retire while you're a cog in someone else's wheel for another 33 years.

Why not build your own achievements?
promising startups.
Please say more about that.

I'm trying to think how a blind user could effectively use a visual design program or its output. Do you output text representation of diagrams? Does a blind user put the product to some use and purpose that's different from the average sighted user?
HP Hiring 50+ Engineers To Work Directly On WebOS
Later parts of the book might be good (or even great) in movie format, but there's no way one can turn Ainulindalë into a movie... Or can they? For years I was passionately against the idea, but now that I think about it again, maybe I'm just being over-pessimistic? I mean, LOTR turned out to be quite good...
I like this idea, but I'd personally make a few additional changes to incognito mode.

1) Make it easy for me to accept persistent cookies at my discretion. I don't want random ad tracking, but I hate having to always log in to Amazon.

2) Let me set incognito mode on a tab by tab basis.
Which is the best "print to card" service which has an API?
I am looking for a company to handle physical prints of my images, and their delivery. Any recommendations are much appreciated.
They'll come around. They have to. I've spent $50k over the course of my lifetime on comics, but none at all in the last few years. Torrenting.
State of the Open Source Cloud
"Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background."

Aah, your gray font used to write this is hard to read and I haven't been characterized for any of these.

Also, HN seems to make it hard for people with these impairments to read downvoted comments :P, though they do that to everyone. There should be an option to re-darken a downvoted comment temporarily.
Docopt : beautiful command-line interfaces -- PyCon UK 2012 Talk
I call bull. Spam accounts are rampant. Based on my personal experience, people are beginning to leave. Roughly 20% of my personal friends have left in the last 6 months for varying reasons. I know I am one datapoint, but without hard statistics from FB servers it's the best I have.
Facebook's first ad campaign - Compares itself to common things like chairs.
how do you think they did?
Cozy launches in private beta
What the heck is an "Instagram campaign"?
This could be, I suspect, both a blessing and a curse for companies like Coursera and Udacity.

On the one hand, many of the people participating today are probably highly motivated and doing it out of a desire to learn new things and solve problems. They may not have access to formal education, for whatever reason, but are determined to become more educated anyway.

On the other hand, some of the participants probably don't care at all about learning anything and just want a credential that will stand up to scrutiny. The goal for this group is to get a job, not necessarily to become qualified for a job (subtle difference).

Unfortunately, as the "value" of the education offered by online companies (i.e. recognition by employers) increases, the share of people in the second category will almost certainly rise quickly.

Ideally, the market will discount this form of education appropriately (as it theoretically does with all other forms of education). The "value" of a Coursera certificate, for instance, would be constrained by the risk of accidentally hiring a person from the second category above, who may have graduated, but failed to learn any useful skills.

However, the business model for these companies seems to be based on providing education to a massive number of people. If the market heavily discounts the education they provide, the business model might become impractical.

It seems to me that the biggest concern for Coursera and similar should be finding ways to enforce academic integrity standards to make sure that even the students in the second category actually end up learning something.

While this will, perhaps, result in fewer students initially, it will also keep the market from heavily discounting graduates of online programs, thus destroying the market for their services in the longer-run.
And the fact that they still promote MAUs as a growth metric makes me believe the number even less.

They could hit 1.5 billion tomorrow if a group of hackers got ambitious. The number is practically meaningless. Unique individual numbers are far lower.
So, it's basically a more hidden version of Regexp::Common?

https://www.metacpan.org/module/Regexp::Common
73%

http://diegobasch.com/42-of-us-internet-users-have-a-faceboo...
Yeah, me neither... Interesting décor though!
Teaching My 5 Year Old Daughter To Code
*this implementation of a neural network designed for object recognition for this particular challenge
To which new policies is this referring to?
Firefox makes the binary choice straightforward: accept the site's styling, or use no styling: "View/Page Style/No Style". I find myself going to no style much more frequently these days, as cool UIs become fashionable but are still hard to get right, especially cross browser.

So what does someone do in between? Immerse themselves in hidden browser settings? Use greasemonkey?
I was a manager in the dot-com era, made good money then took a decade off to climb mountains and raise my kids. Now approaching 50, I've taken up programming and just loving it. Today's tools are incredible - I can do myself what used to take a whole team and literally millions of dollars. Ruby/Rails/Sinatra/Rspec/Postgres/Backbone/Coffeescript/Erlang/Elixir/Chef/etc/etc - we are blessed. Creating with my own hands and having a direct relationship with my customers is so much better than hassling with investors, attorneys, employees etc. I hope to do this the rest of my life.
My friends that had Facebook at college (I was in the UK, so did not) each have over 1,000 friends. Those of us that did not have something in the region of 100-300 friends.

So, I think the answer here is that as the audience for Facebook has diversified, the average number of friends has settled to a more realistic number.
How and why we switched to Amazon EC2
5 Key Questions to Gauge the Culture in Your Startup
> What will be the second site to hit that landmark, does it even exist yet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

"As of December 31, 2010, there were 647.6 million active Tencent QQ IM user accounts,[1] making Tencent QQ the world's largest online community. The number of simultaneously online QQ accounts has sometimes exceeded 100 million.[7]"

Definitely beats gmail's 425 million.
PayPal has revised their terms forbidding class action suits against them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4609280
1. Critizing # "Not to critize you or anything."

2. open source # the only way to contribute

My quick & easy response is #137 of my ebook (see my profile):

137. How do you put your skills to good?

I’ve always thought that the best way to put your technical skills to the greater good is through your day job, not instead of it.

Some of my days jobs have been to write software to ensure that:

- people get the right prescription medication on time
- firetrucks and ambulances get to where they're supposed to be
- parts that go into cars and planes are properly certified
- prisoners are kept in jail
- those same prisoners get proper medical care
- electronic equipment gets assembled properly and on time
- medical supplies get dispatched to where they're supposed to
- insurance claims are processed properly
- quality data is properly maintained for food items

You don’t need to do charity work on the side in order to contribute to the greater good.

On the other hand, if you don’t think that the work you do during the day contributes to the greater good, then
maybe you should consider doing something else with your valuable time.

Do good and get paid. You can do both at the same time.
Should it matter? No.

Does it matter? Possibly. If you have an excellent idea, then being larger than average shouldn't stop you.

Hovever, it may count slightly against you. To take an extremely negative view, being fat (not just carrying a few extra pounds) could be seen to be evidence of lack of self-discipline. No-one makes you fat, it is something that people do to themselves, and either by being too "weak" to resist unhealthy food, or by not being able to stick to an exercise regime.

Also, I think in a lot of western societies now, being fat is something that seems to be more common with poorer people. Which might influence people slightly, although it shouldn't.
Pretty much this - Facebook is a much better place to be once you do two easy things:

* Implement a policy of not friending anybody you don't know in real life.

* Block any game with "ville" in its name.
For private borrowers who can’t make their payments and probably never will, there is bankruptcy law, which lays out a orderly procedure where the borrower asks for relief, the lenders make their claims, and a judge decides who ends up with how much. It’s not a perfect system by any means, but anyone who loans money understands the risk that the borrower will declare bankruptcy, and the credit markets still function.

For sovereign countries, unfortunately, there is no such procedure. If a government borrows money on the international credit market, its taxpayers can be on the hook for perpetuity. I would like to see those taxpayers have at least as much protection as private-sector borrowers—especially when the taxpayers of a democratic government are on the hook for the debts of its authoritarian or corrupt predecessors.
>> "I've always been under the impression that anyone signed up with Facebook probably has a gmail account."

Why do you think that (seriously asking)? Gmail didn't become available to the public until 3 years after Facebook launched (admittedly Facebook was initially limited to certain groups of people). Before I signed up to Facebook Hotmail was still very popular with everyone I knew, mainly because they all used MSN Messenger. It's only been in the last 2/3 years or so I've seen most of the people I know default to Google when creating an email account. Up until then Hotmail was all people really new.
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Who is joining startupweekend Bern (Switzerland)?
Who is also joining the startupweekend in Bern/Switzerland? http://bern.startupweekend.org/
If you use the Search form in the footer, the top result is: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c...

Basically, no class action lawsuits, etc. They've rewritten the entire Arbitration section.
"Photos taken" and "likes received" hardly constitute powerful analytics.
>If all they wanted was to make money, then there would be ads all over the place, instead of the few, limited places at the moment

But then people would hate the site even more than they do now, and would leave. They aren't doing it out of some altruistic desire to "change the world", they are just not total morons who are willing to kill their cash cow for a short term profit.

>Facebook has 1,000,000,000 users now, that kind of scaling isn't cheap, you want a large social network with all of your friends which you can use 24/7, completely free (cost for your internet, etc, aside) and that isn't sustainable without the website making money somehow

Yes it is, there is no reason at all that one company needs to be running it. A distributed social network would work fine.
I just select it with my mouse, but I'm not sure how effective that is on a touch device.
I've had 8 of these calls in the last month (had two in one day a few weeks back).

For me, the most frustrating part of the experience is that regardless of what you say, they follow their script to the letter - they're like method-actors which never get out of character. Just once I wanted them to say "ok - you got me!" but alas - apparently not having a PC or Windows is not enough to sway them.
Not sure if anyone else noticed, but Romney made a crack about Tesla (in the same sentence as Solyndra) as a useless pet project that Obama subsidizes.

I wonder how this will play out politically, especially if Tesla gets into trouble financially. That story is already being spun.
Well, actually...[1]

[1] http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/05/introducing-wolfire-webkitte...
Perhaps even knowing enough to discern between a Mac and PC is enough to make them a poor mark.

Notice that they are saying "Windows support" not "Microsoft Support", not knowing that Windows is a product from Microsoft would suggest they are looking for people with a very low level of knowledge.

I'm guessing retired people who have a good pension coming in.

OTOH that must put an upper limit to the amount people are willing to spend to get their computers back from the scammers. If you only paid $300 for a PC from wallmart you won't pay more than that surely.
Being a cog in the machine allows you to focus on the code (in a good company) in a way that being in a startup doesn't. I can totally understand and respect that.
Element hiding helper does..
This is off topic but:

I was bored to tears and rarely attended class and
spent all my time chasing girls

I was told by an Indian ex-roommate that most people in India are married according to arranged marriages that their parents setup and that there isn't much dating or contact with the opposite sex involved beforehand.

Is your experience unusual? I know that in a lot of conservative societies (like some of the Arab countries, particularly in the Gulf) men & women are not supposed to have relationships before marriage.
I get all the details out of the as possible and report them to the police. Reason being, just becasue I know there con artists I do know there are people who are completely IT ignorant and they would not fair as well.

Some of these spoof there CLID, and use VOIP dialouts alot as well, so you need to log time and duraction of the call as well as the CLID presented. Any other details you can obtain from them like pretenting you want to do a instant BACS transfer of money to them or need to call them back etc to get more details the better.
What if all law enforcement agencies could do instant DNA analysis?
"Also, HN seems to make it hard for people with these impairments to read downvoted comments :P, though they do that to everyone. There should be an option to re-darken a downvoted comment temporarily."

As I mentioned in another response here, Firefox View/PageStyle/NoStyle is increasingly my response to the increasing number of cool but unreadable sites. That will solve your problem of not being able to read downvoted comments.

A quicker and more focused solution is just to drag across the downvoted comment, which shows up in high contrast reverse colors for me.
IMO quite good is an understatement, it has become the best any LotR fan could have ever hoped for. And about Silmarillion: Think about how good some TV screenwriters have become in recent years - IMO they turn out more high quality TV scripts than movies nowadays, mostly because the big budget movie industry needs to always take the safe bets (and so you get stupid flicks like battleship et al.)
Survey numbers certainly support the "facebook is full of shit" idea. There was a post recently where someone did a poll with google consumer surveys and found only 42% of US internet users have a facebook account:

http://diegobasch.com/42-of-us-internet-users-have-a-faceboo...
Everyone knows that Facebook is now a MOM ONLY ZONE.
I wrote all 135,000 lines myself. I can do what I want.

I changed the name, I don't want the old LoseThos bug & change logs.

You fucken niggers still can't believe I wrote my own compiler. It's 25,000 lines and is missing a few things.
It's questionable whether you need to sell the comic itself. Look at MS Paint Adventures, ala Homestuck. The comic itself is done for free, the author, Andrew Hussie, lives comfortably off the side sales (merchandise and the like)

And that's not even counting the 2 million dollar Kickstarter for the game... that's one hell of a dedicated fandom. The average marketer would kill for something like that.
Or rather, how many people are permanently logged in but never actually post anything on FB? For all we know, you might count as an active user if you so much as visit a third-party web page with some FB trackers on it.
MongoDB and Ruby Blogging Contest
You just hit the nail. Yes, of course this makes much more sense if you are working with open source and you know your works helps you, your customer, and countless others that you even don't know about. How do people NOT working with open source keep up? I don't know, probably that's why they want to move on to something else.

And also, being a programmer in open source or free software is not only the programming, its also the community and bonds you make while contributing.
Well, they count my inactive accounts as active daily accounts. They'll be at 2 bn soon I'd say, when they append "*2" to the formula.
Well, then we should close all our accounts on Microsoft, Apple, Steam, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Because they all have recently added similar Anti-Class Action Suit clauses.
Sorry for disagree, but it seems more related to the fact that they are using deep convolutional learning rather than the neural network itself. If you use an ANN with the same set of features side by side with a SVM you will see very equivalent results.

I will be more agree with a title like "Deep Convolutional learning overperformed traditional techniques in Object Recognition"
I used to read comics as a kid on and off, but stopped at some point. I then got an iPad and learned about Comixology and figured I'd pick up an issue or two from my childhood. Well, a couple of hundred digital comics later I am fully committed to reading comics again, almost 100% digital.

Comixology's app makes the buying and reading process so easy and enjoyable, that I thoroughly look forward to Wednesday's new releases. Their "Pull List" companion app and website are great too. I can create my pull list for the week and have it emailed to myself.

One thing I really like about Comixology's ethics is they aren't trying to kill the traditional comic book store. Their app has a feature to locate the nearest comic book store to your location, and has helped me find a bunch of stores I didn't know existed, which have earned my money. They even have a program where your comic book store can set up a Comixology store front and sell comics through that platform and make some money.

On a side note, Dark Horse opted (from what I understand) to use their proprietary app for their comics and my experience there has been completely different. The app runs extremely slow, and crashes often. I bought a couple of Usagi Yojimbo book, read them and deleted the app. The experience was too clunky to deal with.
I'm a few too, and also inactive in reality.
Are internships in India generally unpayed?
Using content research for creating linkable blog posts
Who says you will do this only while you are not retired? If you really enjoy it then you will want to keep doing it even after you retire.

And a programmer today earns enough to be able to do so at a good age.
Then try the audiobook: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/179221/the-silmarillion-boxe...

It's great. And I don't say that about any audiobook (and I listen to audiobooks quite often). The narrator does a great, great job.
Explaining the situation would be a good idea before showing us the way to close our account.
40 year old here. The key to a long enjoyable career is making sure you really love 80% of the work you do in your role. You'll never enjoy 100% but if you find yourself only loving 20% of it then you need to examine what that 20% is and figure out how to make it at least 80%.

I made a long (5 year) detour into management because "I was supposed to" and it took me 4.5 years to realize that I hated 80% of my job. That isn't to say management is "bad" but you need to understand what makes you tick and what doesn't and then find a role that matches that. Don't worry about the money - the money will find you if you love your job.
I should think the former would be a better indication of that.
Not killer feature ≠ not important.
Is arbitration as evil as it's popularly made out to be? I will say, the thought of being able to settle a dispute via a neutral third party without invoking the morass that is the legal system sounds enticing, and i'm the consumer.

Are there any stats on how often they find for the corporation vs the consumer? Nothing jumped out at me when I did a search.

Another question I just thought of, how freely can courts ignore the contract of adhesion in which you "agreed" not to bring a class action?
The "originality" index bothered me, because as the work of a length grows, you'd generically expect less words to be introduced -- exactly what the results show.

The idea makes sense, but I'm unclear on how to actually measure it in a way that's normalized by page count.
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